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The White Stripes: Detroit Spinners

Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, 9 June 2007

SON HOUSE WAS one of the greatest of all blues singers. Born on a Mississippi cotton plantation in 1902, he died 86 years later – a long way north of his birthplace, amid the urban decay of Detroit, Michigan.

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